Wanted citrus and fruit trees figs rooted cuttings

My Kaffir does smell good. I bought it to use for Thai cooking. I got sick of having to go to the oriental market for leaves everytime I needed them for a recipe. The fruit smells really good too. It has the strongest scent of any citrus that I've smelled and they are really weird looking too. I'm going to check out a few more nurseries for a smaller Bergamia but will probably end up waiting till spring. I've bought from Four Winds and like the quality of their trees. It would kill me to prune back a new tree so much. I'm really having greenhouse space problems now and don't know what I'm going to do. We have two commercial sized greenhouses at our farm but due to last years fuel bills (12K) my husband is only heating part of one house. For some stupid reason he thinks that the plants that are grown for sale take precedence over my personal collection! Can you believe that. lol Karyn

I am looking for at least 1 piece of citrus fruit from each of the following trees-- Carrizo Citrange , Swingle Citrumelo & Flying Dragon. If you have these-- Have access to them-- or know of any private individual who might - please contact me via E-mail Thanks

Hi Steve. It really does sound like you are trying to discourage people from growing their own citrus when you say things like: "6b "WAY TO FAR NORTH TO BE GROWING CITRUS" Steve" or "The vast amount of people that grow up north quit after a year or 2 when their trees die." In fact, statements like: " "We" are the small handful of citrus tree growers doing well with few troubles." are completely unfounded. Though I respect your opinion that growing citrus was the hardest experience you've ever had, it certainly wasn't for me. Personally I think that shoot tip micropropagation is complex, but not hard. I think that cultivating mycelium for master cultures is time consuming, but not hard. Basically, I think that all of the things you are saying are hard, are in fact easy with a little knowledge, which is the purpose of offering this guide. I don't think that growing citrus is "expensive, time consuming, and difficult". As a matter of fact as hobbies go, I'd say it can be rather cheap! To be clear that it CAN be rather cheap. If you want to spend a million bucks building a theme-park sized greenhouse then go ahead, but you certainly don't need to. If you want to spend $40 a bag on bark chips for your 5-1-1 mix then you can, but you don't have to. If you want to spend a grand on a fertilizer injector for your irrigation system, again you can but you don't have to. I'm sorry that you feel that this hobby is expensive, but I feel that you can keep you hobby on the very cheap side if you want to. That is to say that I managed to keep everything on the cheap side when tropical plants were not a part of my business and were just a hobby. Just for the sake of clarity, when you say that things are difficult to grow outside of their 'temperature zone', are you considering that every houseplant that you come across is being grown out of it's 'zone'. If what you said were entirely true then I don't think that I could grow the orchids, bromeliads, tree ferns and other wacky things that I do. You could even go so far as to say, that because these species are not native, they don't have anywhere as close to as many naturally occurring pests and therefore are EASIER to grow! I would like to encourage positive discussion, so if anybody would like to start a discussion about this elsewhere, please do. I would however like to hear from people who have something positive to contribute to the production of a citrus care guide, here. Thanks for the imput so far everybody. :)